I'm tired of it and everything (analytics, growth hacking, conversion metrics, ad-tech) that comes along with it. It has sapped my desire to make good products. I've decided to abandon all VC wisdom and go retro. I'm experimenting with an extremely liberal pricing model and business ethos for my upcoming products and hoping against hope that it succeeds. https://koodpad.com/notes/why-pay/
Ha ha ha. It's a deliberate decision and its my very humble hat-tip to one of my heroes, Simon Peyton Jones.
"This is a very funny question, why I use Comic Sans. So. All my talks use Comic Sans, and I frequently see little remarks, “Simon Peyton Jones, great talk about Haskell, but why did he use Comic Sans?” But nobody’s ever been able to tell me what’s wrong with it. I think it’s a nice, legible font, I like it. So until someone explains to me — I understand that it’s meant to be naff, but I don't care about naff stuff, it’s meant to be able to read it. So if you’ve got some rational reasons why I should not, then I’ll listen to them. But just being unfashionable, I don’t care."
Funny, I was so sure it was the default font in Word back when I went to school. But I can't find any references to it so I don't know where I got that idea from.
It was very very popular. I think all the flak it receives now is because of its pervasive usage in the past. We all overreacted and over corrected. It is definitely a very legible font with a lot of accessibility and warmth.
